"Homesick"

Godflesh are touring America next month, but frontman Justin K. Broadrick seems in no hurry to tout the tougher bona fides of his past, as he's prepping Everyday I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came, the new album from his long-running Jesu project (out September 24 via Avalanche). “Homesick,” the first cut from Everyday, is a yearning almost-ballad, with a heavy percussive thrum and bass plod backing diaphanous guitars and wistful vocals.

Broadrick cycles between simple lyrics about fleeing and returning, his mind seemingly void of direction save for the feeling that he’s not quite where he belongs. He ratchets up the sound in the final minute, layering the melody and the riff so as to make the song bigger if not necessarily louder, as though the navigation of “Homesick” actually leads nowhere.